Persons employed in transportation and storage

Number of persons who work in enterprises of transportation and storage (NACE Rev. 2 section H): employees plus working proprietors, partners working regularly in the enterprise and unpaid family workers. A head count, not full-time equivalents. Eurostat structural business statistics.

Eurostat structural business statistics. From 2021 the series come from sbs_ovw_act under Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on European business statistics; 2005 to 2020 come from the earlier table sbs_na_sca_r2. Values for 2021 are flagged as a break: value added moved from factor cost to basic prices and some activities changed coverage, so the change from 2020 to 2021 is not all real. Amounts are published in euros for every country, including those outside the euro area. Not the same as active_companies (INE business register, Spain) or employer_firms (US Census Bureau).

Key facts

Figures last updated on 2026-10-12.

Rankings

EU countries by persons employed in transportation and storage, 2024

Top 15. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Germany: 2,142,871 personsGermany2,142,871France: 1,481,959 personsFrance1,481,959Italy: 1,191,878 personsItaly1,191,878Spain: 1,017,283 personsSpain1,017,283Poland: 903,208 personsPoland903,208Netherlands: 451,204 personsNetherlands451,204Romania: 439,497 personsRomania439,497Czechia: 295,879 personsCzechia295,879Sweden: 260,326 personsSweden260,326Portugal: 242,228 personsPortugal242,228Belgium: 236,832 personsBelgium236,832Austria: 228,761 personsAustria228,761Greece: 203,320 personsGreece203,320Hungary: 201,332 personsHungary201,332Lithuania: 184,362 personsLithuania184,362
persons. Source: Eurostat, Structural business statistics, Transportation and storage (NACE Rev. 2 section H), persons employed, number (sbs_ovw_act). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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